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North, D.; Zewotir, T.; Murray, M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Research output affects both the strength and funding of universities. Accordingly university academic staff members are under pressure to be active and productive in research. Though all academics have research interest, all are not producing research output which is accredited by the Department of Education (DOE). We analyzed the demographic and…
Descriptors: Productivity, Intervention, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Pillay, G.; Balfour, R. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Supervision might be understood as the provision usually by an academic to a student of either the expert guidance in subject knowledge or genre knowledge in relation to postgraduate thesis development. The Project for Postgraduate Educational Research (PPER) team members, in the course of their field visits, sought to interview supervisors of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Supervision, Student Research
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Molefe, S.; Bengesai, A.; Davey, B.; Goba, B.; Lekena, L.; Madiya, N.; Nkambule, T. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Students within academic research projects usually assume a role of supporting the academics/scholars who are undertaking those research projects. The students' identity in this case is regarded as research assistants, with minimal valued input to the project itself. With time, however, this identity may change based on the roles and relationships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Graduate Students, Researchers